How to change font color of UISegmentedControl

Question

I try to change font color from white to black for UISegmentedControl (for iOS 4.*)

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Answer 1

Updated for iOS 13:

extension UISegmentedControl
{
    func defaultConfiguration(font: UIFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12), color: UIColor = UIColor.white)
    {
        let defaultAttributes = [
            NSAttributedString.Key.font: font,
            NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: color
        ]
        setTitleTextAttributes(defaultAttributes, for: .normal)
    }

    func selectedConfiguration(font: UIFont = UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 12), color: UIColor = UIColor.red)
    {
        let selectedAttributes = [
            NSAttributedString.Key.font: font,
            NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: color
        ]
        setTitleTextAttributes(selectedAttributes, for: .selected)
    }
}

Updated for Swift 4 - Use this Extension (because extension is always awesome..!!)

extension UISegmentedControl {

func defaultConfiguration(font: UIFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12), color: UIColor = UIColor.gray) {
    let defaultAttributes = [
        NSAttributedStringKey.font.rawValue: font,
        NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: color
    ]
    setTitleTextAttributes(defaultAttributes, for: .normal)
}

func selectedConfiguration(font: UIFont = UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 12), color: UIColor = UIColor.red) {
    let selectedAttributes = [
        NSAttributedStringKey.font.rawValue: font,
        NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor.rawValue: color
    ]
    setTitleTextAttributes(selectedAttributes, for: .selected)
}
}

and from the respective class, you can use these function,

@IBOutlet weak var segment: UISegmentedControl!

segment.defaultConfiguration()
// or provide paramater as per your requirement
segment.selectedConfiguration(color: .blue)

Answer 2

If you need to change the text color of the highlighted segment in iOS 7, here is a solution (took me awhile to find, but thanks to this post):

Objective-C

[[UISegmentedControl appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor blackColor]} forState:UIControlStateSelected];

Swift

  let titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]  
  UISegmentedControl.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, forState: .Selected)

Answer 3

code to set both states font color to black

Swift 5

    let titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.black]
    segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .normal)
    segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .selected)

Swift 4

    let titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.black]
    segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .normal)
    segmentedControl.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .selected)

Answer 4

swift 3.2:

let attributes = [
                          NSFontAttributeName : bigTextFont,
                          NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.blue,
                          ]         
segmentedControl?.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, for: .normal)

note: if You use a custom background color, you will see a glitch in corners (color will fill outside segments..), so use these line to clip it:

segmentedControl!.layer.cornerRadius = 4.0
segmentedControl!.clipsToBounds = true

Answer 5

in Swift 5 you can change color with this syntax

Swift 5

let titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.red]
groupSegment.setTitleTextAttributes(titleTextAttributes, for: .selected)

Answer 6

In iOS 6.0 and above it's very simple:

NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                            [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:17], NSFontAttributeName,
                            [UIColor blackColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,
                            nil];
[_segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:attributes forState:UIControlStateNormal];
NSDictionary *highlightedAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName];
[_segmentedControl setTitleTextAttributes:highlightedAttributes forState:UIControlStateSelected];